Exposer 1MDB scandal seeks to get $ 18 million from Ex-Goldman Executive

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A Swiss Swiss banker, who revealed the plunder of the Malaysia Investment Fund 1MDB, is seeking to compensate 18 million dollars from a former executive of Goldman Sachs, who is scheduled to be sentenced to this case on Thursday.

Kazavier Justo, who spent a prison sentence in Thailand for what he claims was a wavy blackmail case related to 1MDBHe argues that the money will realize the price he paid for a contract to say the truth about the box.

Justo, who was submitted in a file to a judge in New York in a case Tim LesnarThe former president of Southeast Asia Operations in Goldman will test the application of US laws to restore federal crime victims.

If it is partially granted by the local court judge Margo Brody, which is scheduled to judge Lesnar on Thursday, it can create a new way for the affected persons. The crime of white collars To claim compensation.

It is not clear when BRODIE will judge the claim, which highlights the incomplete account of the international 1MDB scandal.

It is partially dependent on the idea-which Lesnar is disputed and the American government-that the crimes of previous banking in Goldman should be considered part of the broader 1MDB plot, and thus can bear responsibility for harm to JUSTO.

John Kate, a professor at the Faculty of Law in Colombia, said that Justo’s claim was “wonderful” and would lead to “changing the criminal prosecution of white collars” if he obtained any large part of his request.

The coffee said: “In cases where the defendant is a solvent, the victims will line up, after they were identified by the prosecutor’s lawyer,” although he added that Brody may be cautious about such a ruling. He said that Justo’s inclusion to demand the benefits on the money that prevented it from using it “stretch a little.”

The case was focused against Leissner, Goldman Alia Al -Jalair, on an alleged narrow imbalance of more than $ 2.7 billion of bond deals the bank is arranged for 1MDB in 2012 and 2013.

Lesnar agreed to cooperate with the American authorities in 2018 and admitted that he was guilty of money laundering and foreign bribery.

Justo worked at Petrosaudi International, an oil company that was in a joint venture with 1MDB. When he left the company in 2011, he took a set of emails. These communications eventually led to the February 2015 story on the SARAWAK report blog that claims a plot to steal at least $ 700 million from 1MDB.

Gusto was arrested by the Thai police a few months later on the island of Koh Samawi, where he was building a resort complex. He acknowledged that he is guilty of blackmail and tried to blackmail regarding the attempts he made to secure the cutting money that he said was due from Petrosodi, and he was sentenced to three years in prison.

Gusto said since then he confessed that Thai officials and Petrosodian representatives threatened him with a long punishment if he did not. Both Petroswood and Thai authorities have denied any inappropriate behavior.

Swiss court last year The main executives of Petrosaudi Tarek Obaid and Patrick Maony of embezzlement of more than $ 1.8 billion from 1MDB in what public prosecutors described as a “fraud of the century”. Attractive pair.

Mr. JUSTO.

“Mr. JUSTO has manifested the exact risk of Mr. Leissner and his employees for years and successful in managing it: that someone shed light on the fact that 1MDB was nothing more than a way to steal and abuse billions of dollars,” she says.

Justo, who was released from prison in Bangkok in 2016, argues that he should be entitled to compensation under the law of rights to restore compulsory victims in the United States. His demand includes $ 9.5 million for missing property and business, including in The Thai Resort, which he says was forced to sell at a reduced price, and $ 8.6 million in interest.

Lesnar objected to the request for compensation of $ 18 million in the court file, on the pretext that his criminal behavior was not the cause of any damage that Justo had suffered. Lesnar said he had never been accused of being part of the alleged revenge plan for Justo prison in Thailand and Justo was not qualified as a victim under American law.

The US Department of Justice opposed the claim for similar reasons. “Justo’s losses from the specific behavior, which is the basis for condemnation in Lesnar,” said in the deposit.

The 1MDB case went to the summit of Malaysian policy and led to prison in 2022 for former Prime Minister Naguib Razzaq. Undersecretary in the United States claim at least $ 4.5 billion in the fund via many conspiracies that are arranged before Malaysian financier Jho LowHe is still generally but keeps his innocence.